{ "basics": { "name": "Harsh Patel", "label": "Lead Release Engineer & SRE — AI infrastructure & agentic platform engineering", "url": "https://patelharsh.dev", "email": "harshpatel21@gmail.com", "phone": "(312) 330-0565", "location": { "city": "Mission Viejo", "region": "CA" }, "profiles": [ { "network": "LinkedIn", "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/harsh-patel-sre/", "username": "harsh-patel-sre" }, { "network": "GitHub", "url": "https://github.com/hpatel21", "username": "hpatel21" } ], "summary": "Lead Release Engineer & SRE with 15+ years operating production distributed systems and CI/CD at scale — now focused on AI infrastructure and agentic platform engineering. Built and operates Memex, Auction.com's internal AI agent platform running on Kubernetes, with agentic build-failure triage, code-search infrastructure, and GitOps delivery via Argo CD. Deep Kubernetes, AWS/EKS, Terraform, Jenkins, and Datadog expertise across multi-cluster cloud environments. Proven record of raising deployment frequency, hardening release reliability, and applying LLM-driven automation to eliminate platform toil." }, "work": [ { "name": "Auction.com", "position": "Lead Release Engineer & SRE", "startDate": "2019-01", "endDate": "Present", "summary": "Architect and operator of Memex, the company's internal AI agent platform on Kubernetes; owns CI/CD, release engineering, and SRE for a high-traffic real-estate marketplace.", "highlights": [ "Memex internal AI agent platform: architect and operator; company \"brain\" on pi-coding-agent framework, deployed on EKS; migrated services to formal Jenkins + Helm + Kubernetes deployment workflow.", "Agentic build-failure triage: Jenkins Build Intelligence extension (11 REST API tools) + LLM triage skill encoding failure taxonomy (compilation, test, dependency, infra, deployment, timeout, permission, quality gate); agents resolve builds, gather log evidence, emit structured root-cause reports.", "AI code search: Zoekt-based search for 120+ repos — nightly indexing CronJob on EFS, zoekt-webserver Deployment with nginx sidecar on arm64 nodes, public internal endpoint wired into agent tooling.", "GitOps: stood up Argo CD on the CI cluster; ApplicationSet patterns; self-service onboarding handed to dev teams.", "CI/CD ownership: replaced $200K/yr SaaS CI/CD suite with in-house Jenkins + GitHub Actions (10K+ monthly pipeline executions); trunk-based development; bi-weekly → daily releases, <1% rollback.", "Observability: Datadog + Jira-fed DORA dashboards (deployment frequency, lead time, MTTR, change-failure); AI-generated interactive CI/CD health dashboards used by leadership.", "Security/fleet: Amazon Linux 2023 patching across Jenkins fleet incl. Corretto 21 + Jenkins LTS upgrades; CVE remediation; cross-account Secrets Manager; automated SendGrid permission governance.", "IaC: Terraform modules across prod/staging/dev; golden-image AMIs with Packer.", "DR: migrated 120+ repos Bitbucket → GitHub; automated GitHub → Bitbucket disaster-recovery mirroring, <5 min RPO.", "Mobile CI/CD: Azure Pipelines build farm — iOS (fastlane, Xcode CLI, TestFlight) and Android (Gradle, Play Console)." ] }, { "name": "Ten-X.com", "position": "Lead Release Engineer", "startDate": "2014-01", "endDate": "2018-12", "summary": "Centralized build & release across all product teams; championed pipeline-as-code and shared libraries.", "highlights": [ "Centralized build & release across all product teams; Jenkins pipelines substantially reduced deploy time.", "One-click release orchestration with automated rollback and smoke testing; clustered Selenium & API test grid cut QA cycle hours.", "Championed shared libraries and pipeline-as-code; trained 80+ engineers." ] }, { "name": "Core Digital Media", "position": "Senior Build & Release Engineer", "startDate": "2011-04", "endDate": "2013-12", "summary": "Owned build infrastructure, versioning, and SOX-compliant release governance; authored monitoring tooling that preceded the Datadog rollout.", "highlights": [ "Authored a Python monitoring/alerting suite (later replaced by Datadog), slashing MTTR.", "Managed build infrastructure, versioning, and SOX-compliant release governance." ] }, { "name": "LowerMyBills.com", "position": "Build and Release Engineer", "startDate": "2008-06", "endDate": "2011-04", "summary": "Re-engineered manual deploys into fully automated CI/CD; raised release cadence from monthly to bi-weekly.", "highlights": [ "Re-engineered manual deploys into fully automated CI/CD; release cadence improved from monthly to bi-weekly." ] } ], "education": [ { "institution": "University of Southern California", "studyType": "MS", "area": "Electrical Engineering", "endDate": 2007 }, { "institution": "Illinois Institute of Technology", "studyType": "BS", "area": "Computer Engineering", "endDate": 2004 } ], "skills": [ { "name": "AI / LLM Platform Engineering", "keywords": [ "agentic tooling & extensions (pi-coding-agent framework)", "MCP servers", "Claude Code / Codex CLI", "RAG & semantic search (pgvector, Zoekt)", "prompt & skill design", "LLM-assisted incident triage" ] }, { "name": "Kubernetes & Containers", "keywords": [ "multi-cluster EKS operations (AI, CI, prod clusters)", "Helm", "Argo CD GitOps", "Docker", "CronJobs/Deployments/sidecars", "EFS persistent storage", "arm64 node pools", "pod/rollout/scheduling debugging" ] }, { "name": "CI/CD & Release Automation", "keywords": [ "Jenkins (pipeline-as-code, shared libraries)", "GitHub Actions", "Azure Pipelines", "trunk-based workflows", "canary/rollback strategies", "automated post-deploy validation" ] }, { "name": "Cloud & IaC", "keywords": [ "AWS (IAM, EC2, S3, ECR, EFS, cross-account Secrets Manager)", "Terraform", "Ansible", "Packer", "golden-image AMIs" ] }, { "name": "Observability & Reliability", "keywords": [ "Datadog", "CloudWatch", "DORA metrics", "SLO/health dashboards", "incident triage & runbooks", "MTTR reduction" ] }, { "name": "Security & Compliance", "keywords": [ "fleet-scale OS patching (Amazon Linux 2023)", "CVE remediation", "JDK/Jenkins LTS upgrades", "SOX-compliant release governance", "secrets management" ] }, { "name": "Programming", "keywords": [ "Python", "Bash", "TypeScript", "Groovy", "AI-assisted development with Claude Code and GitHub Copilot" ] } ], "projects": [ { "name": "Open Brain", "description": "Personal semantic memory — Supabase + pgvector embeddings store exposed as a custom MCP server; integrated with Claude Code, Codex CLI/Desktop, and chat clients for retrieval-augmented context and continuous knowledge capture.", "highlights": [ "Supabase Edge Function + Postgres/pgvector embeddings store exposed as a custom MCP server.", "Integrated with Claude Code, Codex CLI/Desktop, and chat clients for retrieval-augmented context and continuous knowledge capture." ] }, { "name": "Agentic Planner", "description": "Three-agent system (Planner / Scheduler / Reviewer) via Claude Code — sprint-based scheduling with capacity modeling, drift detection, deadline monitoring, and Slack-dispatched automation loops.", "highlights": [ "Three-agent system (Planner / Scheduler / Reviewer) via Claude Code.", "Sprint-based scheduling with capacity modeling, drift detection, deadline monitoring, Slack-dispatched automation loops." ] } ] }